Gauteng health worried about rising food poisoning cases affecting children

Two boys, siblings aged four and six, died after they succumbed to a suspected food-borne illness. “They had earlier shared a common meal (pap and soup) at home. The four-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital while his brother, the six-year-old, was unresponsive, foaming through the mouth and nostrils and eventually succumbed to the illness. Another three-year-old boy, who is a cousin of the two, was brought to the hospital with them, even though he did not consume the same food, and was discharged after observation as he remained asymptomatic. On the same night, in…